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A90635	The divine catastrophe of the kingly family of the house of Stuarts or, a short history of the rise, reign, and ruine thereof. Wherein the most secret and chamber-abominations of the two last kings are discovered, divine justice in King Charles his overthrow vindicated, and the Parliaments proceedings against him clearly justified, by Sir Edward Peyton, knight and baronet, a diligent observer of those times.	Peyton, Edward, Sir, 1588?-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing P1952; Thomason E1291_1; ESTC R208989	41,016	159

be no need of a William the Conquerour to interrupt the proceedings of the State and dissettle it by establishing of new Laws there will be no William Rufus in a hunting voyage to be slaine no king Iohn to be poysoned at Swinsted Abbey by a Monke nor there will be no beautiful Rosamonds to hinder a pious government no Mortimers to entice to his bed and lust the wives of princes there will be no unnatural mothers like that French Lady who killed her own son Edward the second in Pomfret Castle by the power of a French pride there will be no Pearce Gaviston nor Spencers to draw a mighty State into their own hands by ruine of the people there will be no Alice Pearce who sat at the pillow of King Edward the third and kept a privy Councel out that should advise a king for the good of his people there will be no wanton Courtezan to pass by the Court-chambers and loose her garter to be a means to settle an Order there will be no Iohn of Gant to deny the inheritance of his first children and settle it upon his second wives there will be no Richard the second to send a number of the Nobility to be murdered at Calice to satisfie the unsatiable desires of Princes nor striving to ruine Parliaments though it be to his own deposing nor no Judges to counsel the Soveraigne to ruine his people there will be no factions betwixt the houses of Yorke and Lancaster to imbroyle the people in War nor no Barons wars to make a distraction in the Nations there will be no working to have Burgesses in Stannaries by Dukes of Cornwall nor no imprisonment of a Speaker Thorpe out of Parliaments nor factions for their private interests to ruine the publike there will be no killing of Henry the sixth in a Chamber as Richard the third did no alluring of Iane Shores to Princes lustful beds no murthering of Princes and smothering them as was in the Tower no Empsons and Dudleys to raise an Estate for kings by the ruine of the people no pretences to make a war to gather wealth to peal and pole the subject and after to compose the war and keep the money in his own purse as Henry the seventh did nor pride to put down the right title of a wife and set up his own first that was after it no Perkin Warbeck to be an Impostor to put by a right title no Henry the eighth to make void a Katherines bed to make way for another wife no chopping off the heads of wives to make way for other beauties for lust nor no terrifying of Parliament if they do not give way to pass an Act to enrich his Coffers as Henry the eight did in the case of Abbeyes no Cardinal Woolseys to set up their Armes afore their Masters to make way for a Popedom and too too late repentance that he had not served God so faithfully as his Master by which he came to a Tragical end to poyson himself no poysoning of Edward the sixt by great Northumberlands to make way for the Diadem no Leicesters to grow so potent as to set up a school to vitiate Ladies nor no drawing of Parliament men from their fidelity to their country as hath been used in king Iames and king Charles his time nor none so ambitious as to make themselves Darlings of the multitude to make way for their own interests above the publick nor for kings to take favorites to overthrow their principals none unworthy without merit shall be imployed none shall grow lawless by vertue of Princes humors Surely all kingdomes have a period as the Babylonian Medes and Persians Grecian and Reman look in the history of all these and you shall understand that Ambition oppression Tyranny and Injustice have been the changers of Government to some other way or persons It is probable that the determination of God is to destroy all Monarchy in Christendome for if we begin with France we shall finde they have always adhered to the Romish Government except a little handful of those they call Reformed Protestants How much have they wronged us in our title which belongs truly to us and though they seeme to be Governed by a Salique Law yet notwithstanding they have not kept the order thereof which they ought to have done but have foisted in some males which ought to have been last afore others which ought to have been first and the Maiors of the Palace at Paris have set up kings at their pleasure and not respected the right of those that ought to have had it The persecuting of the holy men of Towers and the Albigenses the true Apostolick descendants who ever hated the Roman Heresies that horrible and unheard of massacre at Paris in Henry the thirds time of France by the device of the house of Guise and Queen Katherine who was a Witch and made Julips of young children snatched up in the night to maintain her lust as Comines doth testifie and Hen. 4. turning his Religion from the Protestant side after God Almighty had blessed him with one and twenty Victories over the Popish League Lewis the thirteenths making a war against the Protestants to murder a number of them though it was with the loss of five thousand of the Nobility of Erance The Duke of Bouillon the Duke Tremelly and divers others changing their Religion and Cardinal Richeliu giving Authority and command in Armes on purpose to destroy the Hugonots though God blessed them to be the best Commanders in France All these I say and many more I could repeat will be a means to showre down Gods vengeance to destroy that Monarchy Let us therefore cease from wondering at Gods works for if a Sparrow fals not to the ground without his special providence then much less is it wanting in turning topsy-turvy principalities and kingdomes Certainly if this vicissitude were not sin would have more abounded piety or at least morality would be banished and men would forget the end of their Creation and think there were no God to punish sin nor reward the righteous but do as the great fishes devoure one another This makes me affirme that it is not probable that God can bless Charles the now supposed King of Scots from his predecessors if we examine the mothers side the Grandmother was proved by the Parliament of Paris to have made abortive her sons bed eleven times by help of a Spanish Emperick as by Will. Murreys Ambassie appeared who returned this answer to King Charles and therefore it was not convenient to yeild that she should return into France and also his Grand-father turned his Religion and was killed like a Calf by Ravilliac his mother for too much familiarity with Buckingham Holland and Jermine for the Duke for fear the French Ladies should tell tales of George often mounted on his steed sent them into France contrary to the Articles of marriage so that the Queen was shut up in the Chamber

that there were exactions too many to be repeated in so little a volume as this and piety being intombed so many yeers and so many pious men silenced caused Nobility Gentry and all inferiours more licentious who by insensible steps grew Atheistical This was connived at by many debauched in Authority so great a current of prophaness was generally for want of Ordinances which caused the People to perish in Godliness The fault proceeded in both Kings but especially from the first governing by young Counsellors who had not vertue but vanity this caused Gundamore that cunning Machiavil to scoff at the Counsellors of State telling King Iames he was the wisest and happiest Prince of Christendome to make privy Counsellers sage at the age of twenty one which his Master the King of Spaine could not till sixty A jest pocketed up by him who loved commendation and flattery more then truth by which he was blinded and saw not the hidden flout This Prince otherwise very much knowing mued in his English Reign favourites to the fifth Coat these Nobles being addicted more to pleasure and delights then the School of prudence and wisdome looking more at their own Interest then the common good or piety of life gave so vast a liberty to their lives as made an abordment of loosness in many insomuch that strictness of life which our Saviour requires was imputed a disgrace and the vainest counted the wisest the profanest no hypocrite and a Puritan was stiled a Devil so that by this time it was difficult to hear profitable Sermons the Pulpits being stuffed more with eloquence then zeal to move the conscience and the Preachers were fitter for a Stage then a Pulpit Thus begun goodness to dwindle and vice to spread far and neer vitious being counted the gallantest men But God opened Pembrooks heart to see the errours of youth But behold the last was Sir George Villiers in number but first in vice and villany as by the former relation he appeared unmasked in his open colours who mounted the highest steps of honour and profited most in the Academy of Nicholaus the Florentine accompanied with a juncto of Achitophel-advisers who spun the web of all his inhumane devices and had none to intercept the contriving but Felton with a knife to take away their General which hindered further rallying his Diabolical plots This man imbarqued us in an unnecessary war at the Island of Rees where many brave Commanders ended their dayes by his unexperienced discipline in War who though advised by Burrows guarded not a Fort which made the French Masters of that Island after he had taken it and in his retreat from thence placed his Ensignes in the muskets not the pikes Afore this king Charles sought to marry with Mary of the House of Bourboune and sent the Earl of Holland ordinary Ambassador to France who with the assistance of the Extraordinary Buckingham there dispatched that overture by the aid of Queen-Mother with their alluring behaviour which drew on the conclusion more then a team of horses or oxen could a by-word king Iames used to obtaine ends by female creatures To Dover Mary was brought and so to Canterbury where king Charles bedded her without the ordinary religious forme of uniting This Queen some yeers after shewed great modesty although there lay a pad in the straw for the Count of Soysons justified boldly and openly at the Louvre in Paris that he was contracted before to her with divers witnesses and so challenged her for his lawful wife before God Holland of this advertised sent Soysons a challenge to combat him but Soysons was deaf of that eare and never met a reason was the Court-faction for the marriage was too strong for him to maintaine the truth with his sword an occasion demonstrated more his fear of ruine then valour and that his enemies power abated the edge of his courage Whilst this match was a brewing the Duke aslayed to defile Lewis the thirteenth's bed by some accomplices which then was found out by the Parliament in Paris a discovery instigated him to procure his Master to the French War inhibiting the Spanish marriage because Count Olivares had foysted into his bed a pocky Courtesan at Madrid in stead of his Lady often sollicited by Buckingham most of his wisdom consisting in such constuprations So that these bawdy transactions in a prospective-glass may bring nearer to our memories the fashion of Charles his Reigne how sin was hatched from an egg to a Dragon to devoure holiness of life insomuch that the Masks and Playes at Whitehal were used onely for Incentives to lust therefore the Courtiers invited the Citizens wives to those shews on purpose to defile them in such sort There is not a Lobby nor Chamber if it could speak but would verify this King Iames dead King Charles ascended the Throne with a dismal plague of 5000 dying every week God pointing to us as with a Feseu as a Scoolmaster to warn us to repent of our abominable sins if no admonition would reform us he would scourge us with an Iron Rod. Yet in shew King Charles gave good hopes to his People of a vertuous Reigne but finding the sweetness of his invasselling the People king Charles paved his path by the steps of his forerunner who reigned twenty three yeers save one day but Charles instead of pacing it ran violently to destroy his subjects following too hastily his precedents direction which brought him afore his time to the block the desert of Tyrants Certainly those times differed much from these for where it is falsly objected that these days are more heretical I answer By a general sale of heretical books then they sought to vitiate truth with greediness the sole indeavour in the Universities now in these dayes too curiously finding out truth they mistake it unwillingly and run upon some points of error which this wise Parliament labours to suppress by placing pious and learned Divines as speedily as they can men indued with the Spirit of God through their Dominions there being a wide difference 't wixt those do wilfully maintaine against knowledge falshood and the others that mistake the truth But in those times they studyed erronious opinions being incouraged by the Bishops so that the Students were ambitious to rake out of the ashes many heresies of Rome to maintain their Lordships as namely kneeling at the Sacrament they used arguments of the real presence of Christ and so reverence Christ corporally present with the Papists when our Saviour used sitting another gesture From this root sprang the Socinian damnable opinion to make Christs death an imitation for all to follow to bury in oblivion the great High Priesthood of Christ and to advance their Sacerdotal Tyranny and insult over the People by the power of spiritual Courts which exalted them above others when Christ abased himself to be a Saviour in his actions on earth a carriage they ought to have used according to his example by

alone not to behold their departure and cut her fingers with the Glass windows as Duplex the French Historiographer writes And Charles the first afore his marriage had for a Mistress a great married Lady it is probable the Prince would follow the same course after marriage by whom she had a boy and when he was Prince of Wales bestowed on the Christening eight thousand pound it is to be supposed he being so good an husband and wise would not lay out so much cost for nothing When he kept a book like Henry the seventh what bribes that he shared he set down punctually So much received for such an Office Place or Honour and would be displeased if he had not his part agreed for with his servants And likewise the French Queen Grandmother of Charles the supposed second King of Scots was so familiar with Marquess d'Ancre whom she advanced to so high a command that by his actions and the government after in her Regency France was almost overthrown and the prime Nobility and by her counsel to her daughter here there was procured matters of dangerous consequence to England since her arriving who perswaded her daughter to draw King Charles to the Romish part as by many affaires appeared and got a Patent to transport leather into France most prejudiciall which was condemned by this Parliament Wherefore on all sides Charles the second from them may justly expect not to prosper especially by his rebellious invading of England for if he had any right yet his invasion and the Conquest hath justly extinguished his title especially king Charles and his mother playing fast and loose so often that no issue from thence can either be legitimate or pious from so ungodly a derivative So that if the quantity of battels fought so great a revolution of the State the several qualities and persons interested or the long continuance of broyles could render a war memorable this the Parliament hath undergone and the new General finished is in the highest degree of Gods miraculous deliverances after more then twenty battels in three Nations and above 300000 slaine and the State changed of face and Masters multitudes of Forts taken and surrendred so that the Victorious are but losers till the State be brought to be as the French proverb is en bon point in perfect health after a war that hath continued almost nine yeers The Subject came from king Charles leaving his Parliament in the suds and violently raising a destructive war to ruine three Nations It had rather been wisdome in the king to apply to the people lenitives not corrosives great wounds are to be fewed not rent which is the part of a good Chirurgeon Restoratives are to be given not Purges to the patient so Kings ought to amend what was amiss and not oppose them with violence appease their fury not exasperate them by a war for this thunder-bolt by wicked Councel was contrived to break forth in fiery flashes at an instant in the three Nations about the 23 of October 1642. Wherefore the Parliament now assembled aimes at this end that as in Grammar there can be no good construction nor coherence to make true Orthography without the Substantive and Adjective conjoyned which is resembled to the Parliament the supreme authority now settled by Gods assistance appointing the Councel of State who will bring mighty things to pass cause the annual Officers to nourish all the members in their several callings that there may be a semblable endeavour of the well being of every good Citizen inhabitant as well as those in authority that piety may be exalted and increased by the Lamps of the Sanctuary indued with the Spirit of God that the whole body may be governed Apostolically whereof Christ is the Head without whom nothing can be effected for if Christ be not chiefest in our thoughts no State can be durable but like a sandy foundation will moulder away That the Electors may love the Elected and esteeme and obey them who spend their spirits to advance the common good keep and defend the weale publick in health and prosperity that it be not hecticall meager nor leane nor too Saturnicall nor too Jovial but in a golden temper These are wise Physitians who cure the maladies fevers and destempers that blood may run in every viene of the State to nourish the whole body in justice equity and right through the cava vena cava porta and smaller veines the great Cities and Townes as well as the small that the Officers and Magistrates have not a dogs appetite to turne Judicature to a bad chylos but to an equall distribution of right that the heart the courage of the People may be fostred in good actions without respect of persons but with regrad to the right of the cause that vice and sin may be punished with a parenthesis of mercy that the Republick may have foraine and native commodities that the Land lie not freshforth as the Lord termes it but that there may be importation and exportation that Manufacture may be maintained to keep from the bane of idleness and debauchedness that trade may dish out all things necessary for use seemly ornament and lawful Pleasure that the Merchant the Purveyors of the Nation export and import all commodities for the good of the State that just Impositions Impost Subsidie and Excise may be paid without corruption and defrauding the State that Artificers may be able to maintaine their families that laws may be kept within the chanel of Gods rule and direction that potency surround not the peoples property nor wink at the spoile of inferiours that those in Authority regard more the publick then their private interest that the Orphant widdows and fatherless be relieved the innocent freed and the nocent escape not punishment and that the Navy the walls and bulworks may be maintained in good equippage for the honour and defence of the Nation By this meanes the wise and sage Councel of State will undermine the enemies plots so that their malice hurt us not by intelligencers in Forraine parts imployed to prevent mischief to the Commonwealth wherein the Earl of Salisbury dead was vigilant at the annual expence of 2000 pounds And therefore I am confident the Parliament frames the State to this fashion if time and repose the midwives of all affairs would give them leave to bring forth to action their contrived principles in which hitherto they have been impeded by the plots of male-contents and by procuring provisions for subjugating Ireland and Scotland the enemies of God and of this State Consider therefore O England that they do as wise Physitians are accustomed afore the perfect remedy of patients consumption advise not to action imployment and troubles in affaires till restored to strength and vigor Wherefore now I come to observe how miraculous it is that my Lord General descended by his Mother by the male-stock of the Stuarts should be a revenger under God and the